In which John fulfills his punishment by looking deep into the dark heart of fitness
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The Friends of Esther Fund: http://www.thehpalliance.org/friendsofesther/
Esther's Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/cookie4monster4
Esther's twitter: http://www.twitter.com/crazycrayon
Esther helped run the amazing site http://effyeahnerdfighters.tumblr.com/
In which John remembers nerdfighter Esther Earl, who was his friend and also a friend to all of nerdfighteria.
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Thank you to everyone who sent in pictures and videos, through the photomatron or otherwise.
Sorry I wasn't able to get the videos incorporated into this...it was too long...but I have a plan.
Happy Birthday John! We think you're AWESOME!
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In which Hank is punished, and thus applys makeup in an attempt to lock down Katniss Everdeen's style at the opening ceremonies of the 74th Hunger Games. And, of course, he's screws up so much that Cinna would probably kill him for butchering it so bad.
Hunger Games is Here: http://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Games-Suzanne-Collins/dp/0439023483
And Ship Breaker is Here: http://www.amazon.com/Ship-Breaker-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/0316056219
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Guide to Nerdfighting: http://www.guidetonerdfighting.com Thoughts from Places: http://johngreenbooks.com/thoughts-from-places-an-introduction/
In which John does an old-fashioned parts video, discussing his fox hat (a detail from Looking for Alaska), his newly re-cataloged home library, the relationship between zombies and people, a crowdsourced book project called the guide to nerdfighting, the new vlogbrothers video series Thoughts from Places, and the continuing amazingness of the In Your Pants joke. (If you add In Your Pants to the end of book titles, many of those book titles become much funnier.)
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For the last three weeks or so, Hank and I have quietly started a series of videos called Thoughts from Places.
As many of you know, I’m really interested in finding ways to write for people that do not involve ink and paper. Reasons for this include:
1. I would like to find a way to give my writing to people for free while still becoming fantastically wealthy. I think free is an excellent price for stories, but it is also a difficult price, because even under the current system wherein writing is not free, authors are pretty poorly compensated.
2. I want to reach people who may not think of themselves as readers, and also people who don’t think of themselves as YA readers.
3. I think Youtube could use a little more writing, and I think books could use a little more Youtube. Writing is very good at slowing us down and leaving us, however briefly, with that rarest gift of the Internet age: a quiet, contemplative moment. Youtube is good at calling us to action and bringing us together.
So the idea is this: Thoughts From Places will be a series of 100 visual essays, each exploring an encounter with a place and the people we meet there. Sometimes these places will be very small (my old high school, a bison range in Montana) and sometimes they’ll be very big (Munich, London). We hope you enjoy the series (and that you’ve been enjoying it, even if you didn’t previously know it was A Thing). Your comments, as always, are appreciated.
Here are the first five videos:
Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh
Family, Love, and Bison Attacks
Looking for Alaska at My High School
Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from Munich
Life in a Day: Missoula
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The Demon Four Year Old is not actually Hank's nephew...he's an actual demon named Intumescence (Toomy, for short.)
To help make John's video go to http://www.nerdfighters.com and sign up for the secret project mailing list.
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Sons of Admirals: http://sonsofadmirals.com/ Alex Day: http://www.youtube.com/nerimon Tom Milsom: http://www.youtube.com/hexachordal Eddplant: http://www.youtube.com/eddplant Ningmaster Tom: http://www.youtube.com/jointhemadvender Lidewij: http://www.youtube.com/user/Lidespam ELMIFY! http://www.youtube.com/elmify Charlie: http://www.youtube.com/charlie songsfrompaul: http://www.youtube.com/songsfrompaul Tobias: http://www.twitter.com/tobiasagricola Secret Sister Rosianna: http://www.youtube.com/missxrojas
In which John Green discusses his trip to the United Kingdom to support his novel, Paper Towns, which has just been published there. Also he talks about Isaac Newton, Snooki, lust for objects, great music, nerdfighting, unfinished monuments, and the right to choose what we care about. Thanks to everyone who gathered in London and Edinburgh. I can't wait to come back to the UK!
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